Mickey Mantle Quotes (31 Quotes)


    It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

    I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

    Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

    The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

    Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.


    Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball.

    A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

    When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

    I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.


    Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

    If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

    He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

    I had it all, and I blew it. Shortly before dying from cancer and other complications ofalcoholism.

    As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

    But god-damn, to think you're a .300 hitter and end up at .237 in your last season, then find yourself looking at a lifetime .298 average - it made me want to cry.

    You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

    To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

    Whenever someone says something Billy doesn't agree with, he doesn't listen very long.

    Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.



    The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

    Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

    After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

    Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what They might as well be about Musial and DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

    Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

    I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

    I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.


    Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.


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